Stretchy Things Lab

This is a  Jupyter lab notebook with markdown instructions and starter code for a two week lab on Hooke's Law and stretchy objects in general. Students are given scaffolding to design an initial activity testing the Hooke's Law model on a metal spring. They are then expected to extend the activity to test whether Hooke's Law applies to other objects and if not try to build a new model.

• Implement practical strategies for mitigating bias when conducting experiments and analyzing data.

• Analyze data using least-squares fitting and residuals.

• Design high-precision experiments to test models, including identifying interesting variables to test, controlling variables, and reducing uncertainty.

• Use prior results to motivate a new research questions.

• Manage time by conducting pilot experiments and plotting as you go.